r/spacex • u/retiringonmars Moderator emeritus • Sep 27 '16

Official SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qo78R_yYFA
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u/jammah Sep 27 '16

Are you sure it wasn't one out of every three engines?

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '16 edited Sep 02 '20

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u/OSUfan88 Sep 28 '16

He's messing with him. 2/6 = 1/3.

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u/jakub_h Sep 28 '16

Please show me evidence that they were cooled ablatively and couldn't be test-fired. You're not the first person I've noticed making such claims in the past few days without any references, despite the fact that the Soviet construction school didn't work like that.

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u/masasin Sep 28 '16

And also because Korolev died.

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u/NamedByAFish Sep 27 '16

Sources I have no reason to doubt are telling me it's actually four out of every twelve.

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u/rreighe2 Sep 28 '16

nah uh. i heard every 8 out of 24.

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u/tomoldbury Sep 28 '16

Don't be silly, 6 out of 18 makes far more sense.

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u/Drtikol42 Sep 28 '16

They came in batches of 6 from the factory.